

Selected a registered virtual machine that is not already protected, and click protect. Next step is to protect the virtual machine. The virtual machine must be online for the registration to work. During registration the backup extension is installed into the selected virtual machines. After you have registered virtual machines you can select to register them. The discover process gets a list of all virtual machines in the same region that are not already protected by Azure Backup. Once you have created a backup vault it is time to discover Azure virtual machines. You can create multiple backup vaults, for example if you have virtual machines in different regions in the world. The first thing you need to do is to create a backup vault in the Azure portal.

In this blog post we will look at how Azure Backup can be used to do snapshot backup of virtual machines in Azure.

Either you can run Azure Backup with System Center Data Protection Manager (DPM) or deploy agents direct from Azure Backup. Azure Backup is a scalable solution with zero capital investment and minimal operational expense.
